[Archive] mx Sitemaps 0.0.1

legal · Joined: 05 Jul 2006 Posts: 42

Thanks - is there a way to show the last active topic on the index page?
That would be great!
Wink

dcz · Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 7:55 am Post subject: Re: [Archive] mx Sitemaps 0.0.1

Atually yes, but you need to apply this small patch with 0.0.1, then, the acp switch will work Wink

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legal · Joined: 05 Jul 2006 Posts: 42

Thanks, I've done that but how do I get the link to show on my index page please?

dcz · Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 1:38 pm Post subject: Re: [Archive] mx Sitemaps 0.0.1

Go to mx Sitemaps ACP and look for the Last Active Topics settings Wink

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dcz · Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 6:16 pm Post subject: Re: [Archive] mx Sitemaps 0.0.1

One other bug fix :

Open :

AmirAbbas · Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 7:37 am Post subject: Re: [Archive] mx Sitemaps 0.0.1

hello again

i think i found a little bug in MX sitemap

see this two page

-http://forum.irani.ch/sitemaps.html
-http://forum.irani.ch/forum-map.html

please see the source code of that two pages
all persian characters are changed to ascii code
for example see the title of the page

dcz · Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 8:21 am Post subject: Re: [Archive] mx Sitemaps 0.0.1

It's no big deal, actually, as long as they are outputted correctly.

Then, I am not even sure browser shows us all the correct encoding, you remember, sometime you see Persian letters in the code but you don't know if it's either UTF-8 or Html ASCII.

Here I am not sure why these are outputted in html ASCII, the site map index titles comes from the mods Lang file, it could come from it.

Actually the fact -http://forum.irani.ch/forum-fmp1.html shows us a mixed title (actually for this file, the title partly comes from the Lang file and the php file as well.

So I'd bet on setlocale() in the lang_sitemaps_main.php, but I am not sure.

By the way I find the UTF-8 version really nice on this site Very Happy

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AmirAbbas · Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 8:30 am Post subject: Re: [Archive] mx Sitemaps 0.0.1

you mean that its not a problem ? Rolling Eyes

dcz · Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 8:34 am Post subject: Re: [Archive] mx Sitemaps 0.0.1

Well, not this much.

Actually, all Persian words posted here are coded in HTML ascii, and you remember Google do find those Wink

As long as they show up right, it's ok, but have you checked the mx sitemaps Lang file encoding?

Because if not so, I guess it's our browser to trick us on the final encoding, but the fact some title appear mixed html ASCII and UTF-8 suggest it's the setlocale().

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AmirAbbas · Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 6:01 am Post subject: Re: [Archive] mx Sitemaps 0.0.1

my language file had problem
i had translated language file to persian but i forgot to save it in UTF-8
i had saved it in iso-8859-1 charset and all the character were changed to ASCII code Embarassed

dcz · Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 8:39 am Post subject: Re: [Archive] mx Sitemaps 0.0.1

That's what I thought Wink

We made the UTF-8 mod rewrite a full Package Very Happy

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jolin · Joined: 04 May 2006 Posts: 17

First question:

What should I submit to Google?

http://www.domain.com/sitemap.php

or the individual sitemaps like:

http://www.domain.com/forum-sitemap-1.xml

http://www.domain.com/forum-sitemap-2.xml

and so on?

Second question:

Is it better to .htaccess sitemap.php to sitemap.html and submit it as an .html file to Google?

Third question:

Is what about Yahoo? (and all the others)
Should I create an individual RSS feed from each forum and submit it as separate RSS feeds to yahoo?

dcz · Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:23 am Post subject: Re: [Archive] mx Sitemaps 0.0.1

Hello

So you should only submit your sitemIndex, being sitemap.php or sitemap.xml with mod rewrite (by the way, there is no html extention here nor it's a RSS feed). Google will find out in it which sitemap was updated since last visit and go check it.

Then, at first it's not really important to implement mod rewrite for the sitemaps links, but in the end it is a bit, mostly because next version will have clickable links and a cache allowing us to post many links to it (thus better rewritten).

It's easy to do, you'll find the rewriterules to add in your .htaccess in the contrib/ folder's .htaccess and will just have to turn mod rewrite on in mx Google sitemap ACP.

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jolin · Joined: 04 May 2006 Posts: 17

Hey dcz,

I've done all the url rewriting, everything is cool (used the webmedic sitemap_forum.php replacement file and added the .htaccess rewrite rules)

Don't forget who your talking to. (You've taught me how to do it before this site was launched) Wink

What I'm concerned is creating a total solution for all search engines (i.e. Google,Yahoo AND MSN) as well as giving a readable version for users.

What I thought about was to rewrite the file sitemap.php to sitemaps.html with .htaccess much the same as you've done to turn sitemap.php to sitemaps.xml and add a .xsl CSS style sheet to make the page readable by users and place a link to sitemaps.html on my homepage.

Then submit it to Google sitemaps as http://www.domain.com/sitemaps.html (Also submit the same url to MSN)

Is this a good idea to rewrite the "sitemapindex.php" (AKA sitemap.php) to sitemaps.html and submit it as so to Google sitemap service? (Instead of sitemaps.xml)

As for Yahoo we need a script to convert the sitemap protocol to RSS as Yahoo now support RSS format sitemap submission which seem to me to be better then the allurls.txt file submission which could be created by the Yahoo mod mentioned on this forum somewhere. What do you think?

dcz · Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 7:51 pm Post subject: Re: [Archive] mx Sitemaps 0.0.1

I know dear 6th user, you're part of this web site history Very Happy

How do you like the new style by the way ?

All right let's get back to topic.

I think there is still some confusion here, the webmedic sitemap_forum.php is part of mx Google sitemaps module, the principle is the same here with webmedic's mod rewrite but ...

Mx sitemaps, this thread's mod, is an html sitemap mod, ready for mod rewritten URLs as you suggest, take a look at the way it is set up here on this site, even though I added the multiforum support, it's the same, you'll just list results from one forum the same way :

the Index, configurable in acp : www.phpbb-seo.com/sitemaps.html
the forum Index site map : www.phpbb-seo.com/board-map.html
As you can see, you can set a different pagination in the forum maps than in the forums : http://www.phpbb-seo.com/phpbb-seo-mods-bm32.html

And the Last active topic listing is configurable for each type of page (index, forumindex and forum map).

This type of site map cannot be submitted to any system I know. It's just meant to facilitate crawling and to provide additional links to your deeper content, and it is very efficient.

Then, you probably want to install the auto link add on with it. So far the webmedic version does not support title injection in sitemaps URLs.
I think a small patch is required for it's pagination, please tell me how it goes.

Talking about Search Engine Optimizing for MSN and Yahoo as well, the next version of mx Google sitemaps will be Yahoo too, with Gzip support and auto regenerated cache, the Google sitemaps will be css/xsl styled and all links click-able Very Happy

I bet it will be a cross search engine optimisation as we'll be able to massively post links to our Google sitemaps by then Wink

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